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No more dog whistles
Isn’t it now time for all of us to reclaim our space—and nation—from Donald Trump?
The betrayal of the Black community
What has not been generally covered are the feelings of let down and betrayal that lingers in the Black community as a result of the aftermath of the 2024 Presidential elections.
A Black community in West Virginia sues the EPA to spur...
Research shows that two majority-Black communities in the state were left out of a regulatory effort earlier this year to tighten limits on cancer-causing chemicals.
American carnage: To be Black in Trump’s America
While Black people are certainly not the sole target of Trump’s rhetoric and the abuse of like-minded mobs, we are one of the greatest tests of the functioning of American democracy.
Black residents of Cancer Alley sue local government for discrimination in...
“We’re being ignored and we have to do whatever we have to do to stop it.”
Black children were jailed for a crime that doesn’t exist. Almost...
Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.
Century-old racist US Supreme Court cases still rule over millions of...
Without equal voting rights and congressional representation, the Americans living in these territories cannot remedy their status at the ballot box.
In a California desert, sheriff’s deputies settle schoolyard disputes. Black teens...
Deputies in California’s Antelope Valley are disproportionately citing Black teens, often for minor infractions, like getting in fights or smoking.
9 Black labor leaders and advocates reflect on the pandemic and...
We asked nine leading Black labor organizers and policy advocates how to advance racial equity in the Covid recovery—and beyond. Here are their responses.
Black women athletes ruptured destructive and limiting beliefs at the Tokyo...
It quickly became evident that Black women would be of central importance to the games and stories that followed.
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.